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		<title>On civic engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the age of 16 or so, I have considered myself to be engaged in or at least well- informed about civic activities at the local level of government and at (so-called) higher levels. The adage that one gets the government that one deserves seems appropriate to me. If a citizen cannot become a participant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of the institutions of democracy</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2010/02/25/the-power-of-the-institutions-of-democracy/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-power-of-the-institutions-of-democracy</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d share few thoughts about the latest polling results released yesterday by Nanos Research &#8211; a firm that I consider to be second to none in Canadian political public opinion research. Respondents were read a list of the &#8220;institutions of democracy&#8221; and asked to rate the degree of power that each of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pork barrelling &#8211; deuxième partie &#8211; spas and schools&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/08/07/pork-barrelling-deuxieme-partie-spas-and-schools/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pork-barrelling-deuxieme-partie-spas-and-schools</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some great observations out in the blogosphere about how some of the Harperite&#8217;s crazy cash (aka Economic Stimulus Funding) is being doled out. I wrote a note about this last week with regards to Clement’s refurbishing of public washrooms in Muskoka. One commenter to that post rightly pointed out that it is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The home reno tax credit &#8211; supporting the sturdy, glossy envelope industry since 2009!</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/08/04/the-home-reno-tax-credit-supporting-the-sturdy-glossy-envelope-industry-since-2009/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-home-reno-tax-credit-supporting-the-sturdy-glossy-envelope-industry-since-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is really easy to see what the Harperite’s cornerstone will be for the next election campaign.  Oodles of dollars are being used by the CPC trumpeting their Economic (In) Action Plan. The ship of state is being calmly steered through the economic malaise with your good Captain Stevo at the helm… ably assisted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives will stop at NOTHING to discredit Grits</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/05/28/conservatives-will-stop-at-nothing-to-discredit-grits/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=conservatives-will-stop-at-nothing-to-discredit-grits</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Conservatives try to distort the truth. Lesson #231. I recently blogged about this right-wing site that at times will register right off the ol’ cynicism meter.  But I do enjoy my visits there – if not only for the “wtf” factor than anything else. It is also quite well-written. Although I don’t think the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cynical and small-minded in the great white north&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/05/26/cynical-and-small-minded-in-the-great-white-north/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cynical-and-small-minded-in-the-great-white-north</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know. I shouldn&#8217;t be giving bandwidth to propagandists like this. But it is the ill-informed and self-serving agents of the Politics of Cynicism that make me wish that there were an election just around the corner&#8230; when we can reduce the ReformCons to a rump in the boondocks of Alberta and rural Canada. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A letter to Jack Layton</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/01/29/a-letter-to-jack-layton/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-letter-to-jack-layton</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encourage everyone to send a copy of this (or modified if you don&#8217;t really admire the guy or the NDP) to : layton.j@parl.gc.ca Hi Mr. Layton: As much as I admire much of what you and what your party has done for all Canadians in challenging the current Government on a number of issues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iggy comes clean &#8211; sorta</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/01/28/iggy-comes-clean-sorta/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iggy-comes-clean-sorta</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Grit leader says that he will support the budget only if the neocons agree to provide clear budget updates in order to track fiscal progress. Stevie should be able to live with this. I hope. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Federal Budget</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/01/28/2009-federal-budget/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=2009-federal-budget</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trashysworld.wordpress.com/?p=708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The neocons have done the impossible and have managed to largely exclude their normal partisanship and opportunism from this budget. What does this tell me: Harper is under extreme pressure form the caucus and the party executives to tone it down a little since the ramrod approach clearly isn&#8217;t working with the vast majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another great political blog</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2008/12/01/another-great-political-blog/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=another-great-political-blog</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://mnfu.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/stability-in-times-like-these/#comment-303 Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario]]></description>
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